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Aram Ashoti Hakobyan (Armenian: Արամ Աշոտի Հակոբյան, romanized: Aram Ashoti Hakobyan; born 1 April 2001) is an Armenian chess player. Aram Hakobyan started playing chess when he was 6 years old. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2018. Since then, he has achieved much in the chess world, such as winning the Armenian Youth Championships five times in different age groups (10,12,14,18), becoming World Chess Champion in U12 in 2012, earning vice-champion of the European Chess Championship U14 years in 2014, bronze medalist of the European U14 Championship in 2015, and bronze medalist in U16 team Olympiad in 2016. Other accolades Aram has been awarded include "The World's Young Stars" - 3rd prize for first and second rounds of European Junior Grand Prix in 2017, 2nd place in the category "Best junior player "The World's Young Stars" - 1st prize of the third round of European Junior Grand Prix in 2018, and European individual chess championship - Best junior player U18, also in 2018. In 2019 he became the bronze medalist of World Junior chess championship (U20)

Early life and education

Hakobyan was born on 1 April 2001 in Yerevan, Armenia His first coach was the Fide Master Santryan Ararat, he also used to work with Ashot Anastasian, Vladimir Hakobyan, and Arman Pashikian. An early sign of his pure talent came when he won the 2012 World Youth Chess Championship (under-12) in Al Ain with 9.5/11, In 2019 August 18 he started school at Webster University in Saint Louis, Webster University is first ranked chess team in the USA. After starting school at Webster he was close to winning the Junior chess championship, but he got only bronze.

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